Aldi or Lidi skin products

Saturnalia

I have oily skin and i like the Lidl CoQ10 night cream, it suits me well and I think it has made a difference to my wrinkles.

The undereye concealer pen is brilliant as well, I've had a Touche Eclat in the past as well as loads of cheaper copies, and the Aldi one & Collection 2000's are the only two that are as good as the original.

green1970

mogwai wrote: »

green1970 - your HM serum sounds good, can you post the recipe here pretty please? I am using henrikson truth serum at the moment which is ok, but too pricey!

Here's the link - http://www.lotioncrafter.com/formulary/DIY_C&E_With_Ferulic_Acid.pdf There's various adaptions of it on the essentialdayspa website forum to make it easier but I wanted it to be exactly the same as the real thing. It wasn't a cheap thing to begin with - I ended up spending nearly £100 on all the ingredients, bottles, scales, ph tester, etc, but the serum to buy on its own is more than £100 for 30 ml. As it stands, I make a batch of 150ml each time (as I make one for my mum and sister as well as one 50ml bottle for me) and I have enough ingredients to do that 8 times. It's definitely a project/hobby rather than something simple that you can just jump straight into but I enjoy it and the stuff works so well, I wouldn't be without it now. I've got a big spreadsheet that lists all the ingredients and measurements that change according to how big a batch I want to make and also lists the supplier I used to get that ingredient from. Enormous fun but most definitely a time-consuming hobby. I plan to make a spray Niacinimide toner next which is easy-peasy as just a few ingredients so that might be a better thing to start with if you'd like to make your own.

Hope that's a help and hasn't scared you half to death :-)

mogwai

Thanks, I am on the eds forums as well, and some of the ladies there are military!!

I worked in a lab for years so am fine with pH and mixing up etc, maybe I will give this a go once my henrikson serum runs out...esp if its so much cheaper..

Unfortunately I don't tend to see much in the way of results from vit C serums, I want that glowy shiny effect some people seem to see from their serums!